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all about wonder woman ONE CRACKED FACT | [View in Browser]( [logo]( The UN Made Wonder Woman an Honorary Ambassador (Then Immediately Walked It Back) By: [RM Avatar] [Ryan Menezes]( • October 4, 2021 [10042021]( It's comics week in One Cracked Fact! Stay tuned for more comic-based facts all week. We'll also be giving away a set of awesome graphic novels to one One Cracked Fact subscriber. Learn more [here](. And, if you dig Cracked's comic- (and non-comic) movie and TV coverage, [sign up for the Cracked Movie Club]( newsletter--launching this Friday! In 2016, the United Nations named Wonder Woman as an "Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls." This wasn't a very meaningful move because, you see, Wonder Woman is a fictional character. Sure, people can be inspired by works of fiction, and it looks the "Wonder Woman campaign" consisted mostly of asking followers to tweet the names of actual heroes, with the hashtag #RealLifeWonderWoman. But the move did rub some people the wrong way. For starters, it came with a ceremony in which the UN gave a speaking spot to the president of Warner Bros. rather than to any of those real-life heroes. With a Wonder Woman movie coming out the following year, it felt less an "international policy initiative" and more like a Fornite cross-promotion. A few months later, the UN bowed to pressure and pulled the plug on the campaign. But the reasons for killing it were so bad, that suddenly, we feel like defending Wonder Woman after all. A petition had complained about Wonder Woman, calling her "a large breasted, white woman of impossible proportions, scantily clad in a shimmery, thigh-baring body suit with an American flag motif and knee high boots—the epitome of a pin-up girl." None of that means she'd make for a bad ambassador, and many actual models have been ambassadors. Plus, with the most famous depiction of Wonder Woman at the time being Gal Gadot from the upcoming film, very little of that description was even accurate (just the part about the boots and bare thighs, maybe). To really judge Wonder Woman, we'd have to stack her against all the other fictional characters the UN had ever made ambassadors. But it turns out there haven't been a great many of those. We could only find two. One was Tinkerbell, an ambassador for the environment because she dresses in green. The other, also for the environment, doesn't quite qualify as an iconic character: It was "Red," from Angry Birds. Now read some more about Wonder Woman: - [5 Superheroes With Consistently Bizarre Sex Lives In Comics]( - [5 Superhero Movie Scenes They'll Never Let You See]( - [5 Movies That Preach Grand Messages (They Totally Ignore)]( Top image: Warner Bros. [Daily Digest]( [4 TV Moments Broke The Audience's Brains]( [By Dan Fritschie / October 04th, 2021]( [13 Interesting Facts To Become A More Intriguing Conversationalist]( [By Andrea Meno / October 03rd, 2021]( [The Dumbest 'Spider-Man' Story Somehow Just Got Dumber]( [By Tara Marie / October 03rd, 2021]( [The Dumb Reason Behind Hannibal Lecter's Legal Mess]( [By JM McNab / October 03rd, 2021]( [12 Action Stars That Tried Comedy with Seriously Mixed Results]( [By Matt Solomon / October 03rd, 2021]( [READ MORE]( [fb]( [tw]( [yt]( [flipboard]( [insta png]( [tiktok png]( [ARTICLES]( | [PICTOFACTS]( | [Videos]( Literally media Ltd. 190 West St, Suite 17B, Brooklyn NY 11222 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2021 Cracked is published by Literally media Ltd. [Unsubscribe](